Sentences with phrase «of an urban farm with»

Make a salad for lunch using leafy greens grown in a local version of an urban farm with closed - loop irrigation, such as Singapore's vertical urban farm Sky Greens.

Begin a program of greater densification in cities built around car - free neighbourhoods, and a massive program of urban farming with citizen gardens, orchards of fruit and nut trees on streets.

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Devita Davidson of Foodlab Detroit, a network of food entrepreneurs in the city, has helped create a partnership with local urban farms called Detroit Grown and Made.

Saputo wanted to make the brand stand out on shelves and resonate with shoppers, and replaced images of farms and cows on packaging with clean - cut, text - based design, to better score with its on the go urban consumers.

And if we compare the condition of the poor in urban slums with that of the poor on subsistence farms, my own judgment is that there is more loss than gain.

Since then, as in the United States, agribusiness has replaced subsistence farming and there have been vast movements of population to cities often unable to provide people with the minimum facilities of urban life.

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proof i've become the stereotypical eugene - ian: now wearing socks that don't go with anything, with everything, sometimes go days without brushing my hair and skip showers, have basically turned the front and backyards into an «urban» farm, and... there is nothing quite like a post-run refill of broccoli sprouts and the bucha, the former of which i take with me on weekend getaways.

I was delighted to spend time with farmers such as the irascible Joel Salatin of Polyface, the fiery and generous Mike Callicrate of Ranch Foods Direct, the irreverent and determined Greg Gunthorp of Gunthorp Farms, the earnest and warm Guido Frosini of True Grass Farms, the focused and incisive Marina of Circle B Ranch, and the fierce and friendly Julia Smith of Urban Digs Farm.

The new Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan creates innovative strategies to guide the County to identify and protect agricultural land with development pressure, support new farms and attract new farmers to Erie County, identify strategies to increase the financial viability of agriculture in the County, connect rural and urban farmers with consumers and new markets, and increase accessibility of healthy, local food for consumers.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

These small scale urban farms range from simple raised bed gardens to elaborate mini-homesteads with various types of animals, bees and ponds.

From Michelle Garibay Events — «The photographer for this urban farm - to - market wedding inspiration shoot, Ashely Bee, wanted to create a fresh, botanical - inspired design in a city setting with the hardness of metal and wood paid with soft, organic elements.

Daniels ran the urban farming session with 11 attendees this summer at the Harvard iLab, where Cherry Rice initially worked on the idea for Parachute and where Parachute continues to be part of the lab's Venture Incubation Program.

Attractively designed with colorful graphics, photos, and blocks of text, this book covers a variety of issues related to urban farming.

That's when they decided to start the site, which receives an average of 100 visitors every day, with a growing list of organizations like animal shelters and urban farming groups requesting to be listed.

Texas Farm Radio - Hosted by Don Kyser and Dr. Bob Judd is a three - minute program that deals with the everyday care of horses and other animals in urban and rural Texas.

The scenic qualities of this area have long been recognised and the idea of granting it protection as a national park were put forward as early as the 1920s, the principal reasons being that it was an extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country but these early plans never came to fruition and urban development and changing agricultural practices continued to impinge on the area's character with much of the traditional grass «downland» being turned over to arable farming.

At the end of the nine - month program, the participants will schedule with CommonWealth Urban Farms a Saturday morning tour for three of their faith community members.

The exhibition also features publications produced in the Hudson Valley on rural and urban food infrastructures installed in the CCS Bard Bulletin Board, and a presentation of objects from the CCS Bard library and Special Collections that deal with the transformation of landscapes via farming, architecture, ecology, mapping, and food culture.

Architectural ruins was a common subject for 18th - and 19th - century artists and an especially favored theme among the Romanticists; Farm Security Administration photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange are known for documenting the effects of the Great Depression; and most recently, an obsession with photographing urban decay has sparked an entire genre dubbed «ruin porn.»

Urban Fruit Trails Omaha was organized by the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with Diana Failla, CEO at the Urban Bird & Nature Alliance; Teal Gardner, Kent Bellows Mentoring Program Community Coordinator at Joslyn Art Museum; and Brent Lubbert, co-founder of Big Muddy Urban Farm.

(This site - specific performance work, the title of which derives from the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, attracted pigeons into a machine where they were airbrushed with a variety of bright non-toxic dyes before being released into the urban streets, thereby making each one unique.)

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

Hexagro Urban Farming has been working on the Living Farming Tree for several years, and was picked as one of the finalists in the 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, but now the team is looking to take its system to the public with a crowdfunding campaign.

MOS architects of New Haven, Connecticut of all places, took first prize with its Urban Battery that charges us up with wind and solar power combined with a vertical algae farm.

I would however suggest that there is a need for a model for people to live within a close social structure without becoming detached from nature in which the land on which we live is involved with supporting us through what might be called urban agriculture, vertical farming and the affiliated processing of clean water, natural dynamic energy generation like wind, solar and water, and cheap / easy / affordable transit all tied - up with great education and health care.

For a long time this TreeHugger was dismissive of vertical farms, agreeing with Adam Stein who wrote that «Using urban real estate in this manner is incredibly wasteful: bad for the economy and bad for the environment.

From our original post on aquaponics to our coverage of Milwaukee's proposed Urban Aquaculture Center, the community focused Growing Power farm or Backyard Aquaponics Magazine, the concept of integrating fish farming with hydroponics in a mutually beneficial relationship has certainly caught our imaginations.

With 54 percent of the world's population residing in urban areas — expected to increase to about 66 percent by 2050, according to the 2014 Revision of World Urbanization Prospect — vertical farming projects strive to expand production on and in buildings and vertical structures.

Municipal authorities increasingly understand the role (intra - and peri --RRB- urban farmers can play in environmental management (like the recycling of urban wastes, urban stormwater management, lowering urban temperatures and dust, maintaining urban biodiversity) while innovative farmers in and around cities are offering nowadays a variety of recreational services (staying on farm, horse riding, etcetera), playing a role in maintaining the cultural landscape and other services (e.g., on farm care for elderly people or with people with a psychological, eco-education,...) in response to the demands of citizens and city region managers.

Alternatively, REED students interested in sustainable agriculture can learn the basics of organic farming with a vision to design urban gardens and systems to promote local food production.

Health risks associated with urban farming can be reduced substantially if farmers are made well aware of these risks and know how to prevent them.

The Partnership is formed by strategically selected expert institutions with a significant track record in urban farming or work on urban food system solutions, and consists of cities, research institutes and NGOs.

The Accra working group on urban agriculture, with the Accra Metropolitan Assembly as a member, has drafted revised by laws on the use of waste water and support an awareness campaign on health risk minimisation strategies in production and marketing (Farm to Fork) of urban vegetables.

Governmental organisations, educational institutes, NGO's and the private sector can be stimulated by the Municipal Government to provide training, technical advice and extension services to urban producers, with a strong emphasis on ecological farming practices, proper management of health risks, farm development (e.g. intensification and diversification), enterprise management and marketing.

To gain experience administering shared solar, Duke proposes to start relatively small, with 2 megawatts of solar on farms up to 75 miles from potential subscribers — maximizing both cheap land and the ability to recruit customers in urban areas.

It is essential to address the health risks associated with urban agriculture to protect consumers from contaminated foods and farm workers from occupational hazards whilst reaping the benefits of urban agriculture for urban food security, nutrition and other benefits of urban agriculture for sustainable urban development

* On October 24, 2001, at a New England Wind Energy Siting Workshop, Steve Ugoretz of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources summarized «The FPL Fracas in Washington County, Town of Addison,» and highlighted the problems as including: * FPLís early underestimation of the strength of the opposition; * Presence of an opponent with the resources and sophistication to exploit concerns and divide the community; and * Significant conflict between older, farm community residents, and newer, urban expats.

For example, situation analysis and design / implementation / monitoring of small projects with groups of urban poor / women was supported in 20 cities as part of the Cities Farming for the Future Programme.

-- Down on the Urban Farm is a fantastic blog site run by Greg Peterson, «a green living and sustainability innovator» with years of experience promoting urban farms and garUrban Farm is a fantastic blog site run by Greg Peterson, «a green living and sustainability innovator» with years of experience promoting urban farms and garurban farms and gardens.

-- The USDA «s National Agriculture Library has an Urban Agriculture and Community Gardening page with publications and links in the Farms and Community section of their website.

For now Neighbor Carts buys produce from a large wholesaler, but there is the possibility of partnering vendors with local community gardens and urban farms.

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In the morning, there was an urban farm bike tour of unique, edible landscapes with local permaculturist Kevin Bayuk and WIGG Party co-founder Morgan Fitzgibbons.

Proposals by Chris Hardwicke for Ravine City and Farm City integrate visionary ideas for an urban ecosystem of collective housing that restores and enhances the ravine system of Toronto with a new kind of architecture that would enable the city to feed itself.

Thanks to the emergence of the technologies associated with vertical farming we now have the means to provide all essential resources for urban living - food, fresh water, fresh air, and energy - from on - site processes disconnected from natural ecosystems.

As more urban consumers discover the health benefits of fresh, locally grown food products, more entrepreneurs are expected to consider urban farming as a career alternative with real potential.

With more and more people wanting a piece of the urban farming pie, more options for making it happen are starting to become available.